Hedon is a historic small town east of Hull in the HU12 area, with period properties around St Augustine’s church and newer housing towards Preston and Bilton. Exposure to coastal weather from the east makes storm-damage repairs and roofline renewal common requests here.
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Ninety listed buildings are recorded in the town on the National Heritage List for England: one at Grade I, five at Grade II*, and the rest at Grade II. Their dates run from the early 13th century, at St Augustine’s Church, through 17th and 18th century properties to the Market Place shops of 1828-29. Listing entries describe many of them as brown brick with pantile roofs.
Those dates shape what is allowed as much as what is needed. The town has a designated conservation area, and the neighbouring Hedon Haven is a separate designation with its own appraisal; East Riding of Yorkshire Council publishes both. Areas of that kind usually call for materials matching what is already there, which means tile, mortar and flashing detail on an old roof are judged on how they look as well as how they perform.
Flooding is part of the local record. The summer 2007 floods affected the Inmans and Westlands estates and most areas near the Burstwick drain. A roof plays only a small part in surface water, through its gutters and downpipes, but it is the part a roofer can do something about.
With a conservation area and ninety listed buildings in Hedon, changes such as a different roof covering, a front-facing roof window or the removal of a chimney can call for permission or listed building consent. Hedon Haven is designated separately.
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Wind coming in off the Humber gives Hedon roofs little shelter, and slipped tiles or cracked flashing around older chimneys are a common result — particularly on the period properties near St Augustine's, the church locals call the King of Holderness.
Learn more →A full re-roof is a sensible investment for many of Hedon's older homes, where original coverings have battled decades of easterly weather rolling across the Holderness plain.
Learn more →Plenty of homes towards Preston and Bilton have flat-roofed extensions, garages and dormers, and old torch-on felt rarely lasts long in the salty, wind-driven rain Holderness throws at it.
Learn more →Hedon's streetscape mixes clay pantiles on the period properties around St Augustine's with concrete interlocking tiles on later estates, and we work confidently with both — plus natural slate for those who want it.
Learn more →When a gale barrels in across the Holderness plain, Hedon often takes the brunt — ridge tiles lifted, felt torn, ceilings suddenly dripping.
Call 07447 352091Learn more →Timber rooflines on Hedon's older houses take constant punishment from wind-driven rain off the Humber, and once fascias start to rot, gutters soon pull away.
Learn more →We supply and fit cast iron, cast aluminium, timber and lead guttering across Hull, Beverley and the East Riding, plus Twinplas — a twin-wall PVC box gutter made as a like-for-like replacement for the timber troughing on Victorian and Edwardian terraces — because not every roof suits white plastic.
Learn more →Twinplas is a twin-wall PVC box gutter made specifically to replace the timber trough gutters found on Victorian and Edwardian terraces and barn conversions.
Learn more →We regularly work on Grade II listed buildings across Hull, Beverley and the East Riding — from a detailed roof assessment at Lockington House, a Grade II listed former rectory, to an ongoing programme of lead work, ridge and verge work and like-for-like tile replacement on a listed property in Walkington.
Learn more →Tall brick chimneys on Hedon's period properties are hit hardest by the easterlies that sweep in off the Humber, so eroded pointing, cracked flaunching and loose lead flashing turn up regularly across HU12.
Learn more →Damp Holderness air keeps moss growing on the shaded, north-facing slopes of Hedon rooftops, where it holds moisture against the tiles through every winter frost.
Learn more →Loft conversions and brighter landings are increasingly popular in Hedon, and a well-fitted Velux is the simplest way to pull daylight into HU12 homes — especially deeper period properties near St Augustine's where lower windows sit in shadow.
Learn more →Replacing a conservatory roof turns a room that bakes in summer and freezes in winter into one you can actually use all year round.
Learn more →Lead has protected the junctions of Hedon roofs for generations, and on period properties near the King of Holderness church it is often original — thin, fatigued and splitting.
Learn more →Woodworm is the larva of a wood-boring beetle — in East Yorkshire homes usually the common furniture beetle — tunnelling through rafters, purlins, joists and floorboards in the roof space.
Learn more →Steep, weathered roofs around Hedon's historic streets aren't always safe or sensible to ladder, which is where our CAA-registered drone surveys earn their keep.
Learn more →As well as Hedon itself, we regularly work in Preston, Bilton, Thorngumbald, Sproatley and across the HU12 area. Wherever you are, you get the same insured, guaranteed roofing work and an honest assessment of what your roof actually needs.
Yes — Armour Shield Roofing Services covers Hedon (HU12), including Preston, Bilton, Thorngumbald, Sproatley. Every quote is free and no-obligation, and our workmanship is guaranteed in writing for up to 15 years.
Possibly, but it needs checking first. Within the conservation area, and on any of the town’s listed buildings, a change of covering can need planning permission or listed building consent, and a different tile is exactly the kind of change that draws attention. Keeping to what is already on the roof is usually the least troublesome route.
Pantiles are a single-lap covering, and on older roofs they were commonly laid without underlay, over battens with mortar torching underneath. One tile lifted or slipped is then enough to put water onto a ceiling while the slope still reads tidy from the pavement. On a roof of that construction a close look, from a ladder or by drone, settles it long before a ceiling stain does.
Not the roof itself, but what happens below it. The allocated HED-A site north of Hull Road and east of Staithes Road lies wholly in flood zone 3a, and development there must incorporate comprehensive sustainable drainage systems. On existing houses the equivalent is humbler: gutters, outlets and gullies that are clear, and downpipes that actually reach a drain rather than spilling at the foot of a wall.
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